Romanticism

Not to be confused with Romance

Romanticism was a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the eighteenth century in Western Europe, and gained strength during and after the Industrial and French Revolutions. It was partly a revolt against the political norms of the Age of Enlightenment which rationalised nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. Romanticism has been seen as "the revival of the life and thought of the Middle Ages", reaching beyond rational and Classicist models to elevate medievalism and
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Wuthering Heights
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Pride and Prejudice
Lyrical Ballads
Jane Eyre
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Scarlet Letter
The Complete Poems
Emma
Don Juan
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
The Count of Monte Cristo

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I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.
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I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
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